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LAUSD/UTLA : In a fit of PEAC - Perdaily.com

LAUSD/UTLA : In a fit of PEAC - Perdaily.com

LAUSD/UTLA : In a fit of PEAC

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(Mensaje se repite en Español) On November 5th last week, I received the following terse email from David Rapkin of Progressive Educators For Action (PEAC), the self-proclaimed progressive activist arm of UTLA:

"At a certain point, people and groups need to disagree forthrightly on principle and part ways clearly. It is the decision of the PEAC leadership that your posts are no longer welcome nor permitted on the list."

David

Two days later after sending the following incendiary comment to David:

Enjoy the cool aid (reference to Jim Jones, Guiana, and the cult-like adherence to doctrine to the point of adamantly refusing to hear or deal with anything outside accepted dogma, i.e. fanatic.


I received the following email on November 7th:

Lenny,

As un-patronizing as I can make it un